Studies on Learning to Learn's impact were validated by the U.S. Department of Education's Joint Dissemination Review Panel (JDRP).

For more than twenty years, the JDRP evaluated the effectiveness of educational programs at all levels. Program assessment was rigorous. The JDRP found that LTL is the only postsecondary program that reliably produces both significant increases in economically/educationally disadvantaged college studentsí

(1) grade point averages in all content areas and

(2) retention through graduation.

Population: first-generation, primarily minority, Title IV students

LTL intervention: One-semester, 3-credit LTL course

Boston College

The treatment groupís mean combined SAT was 812, as contrasted with a mean SAT score of 1060 for normally-admitted freshmen at the university.

Roxbury Community College

Treatment group and control groups entered both interventions reading at the sixth grade level.